subject: The Pros And Cons Of Graduate Careers [print this page] Everything we do in life has a good side to it and a bad side to it. The professional decisions that you make will have pros and cons to them. The choice of going to college to pursue graduate careers or immediately entering the work force after high school will have positives and negatives associated with it.
The pros associated with graduate careers are:
The people who go to college and receive degrees that qualify them for graduate careers will make more money in their lifetime than those who choose to enter the work force right after high school.
The more educated person will stand a better chance at being able to work at something they like to do
These professions also come with benefits like good retirement, health benefits, and paid vacations
More money each year means that you can have more of the things you want like a nice house, fancy cars, and all of the other toys we like to collect
People who do not have graduate careers often live one paycheck away from being evicted
Companies actually hire employment firms to recruit young scholars for the positions they have available before the person has finished their studies and received their degree
You will be able to make a difference in your community and the world around you
You will be able to have a sense of pride in the fact that you challenged yourself to be your best and succeeded in the challenge
The cons associated with graduate careers are:
You have to wait a longer period of time before you begin to be totally self supporting
College educations are expensive
There are fewer of the jobs that require graduate careers available so finding a job when you have your degree may be hard to do
You will be in a higher tax bracket
Most people know that the folks that work at professions that require college educations make more money than the people who work at the menial labor jobs. This is not to say that a person without a college education cannot succeed in life, or that they cannot move up through the ranks and become a good leader. It is saying that the people who go to college will have an easier time of moving up and being promoted.
When you are just leaving high school you may not realize how important it will be to you to be doing some type of work that really makes you happy. At that age almost everything makes you happy and the fact that you get a paycheck makes you ecstatic. You have to stop and think about what you want to do for the rest of your life, and what your physical limitations may become as you age. These physical limitations will be the deciding factor of what unskilled jobs you can do as you age. Your choices will become fewer and you will likely have little money to retire on.
Graduate careers have positive aspects to them and they have negative aspects. One of the positive things about graduate careers is that companies like Grad Central can help the educated individual connect to the employer that will appreciate them the most.
